No Longer At Ease. Macmillan Readers Intermediate

“I cannot understand why you took this bribe” said the judge. “You are an educated man with great promise” When Obi heard the words, “of great promise”, tears suddenly came to his eyes. Obi had lost everything. He had lost his mother. She was dead. And he had lost the woman he loved. She had left him. Why did he take the bribe? How had he fallen so far?